People have short memories I think! Apart from loons, which I mentioned earlier, we had jeans covered in patches, patchwork jeans made up of different materials, jeans with inserted material in the bottom to make them wider flares, Bay City Rollers tartan bottoms on jeans, cut off jeans to make hot pants - you name it, jeans have been through every permutation under the sun. These are really no worse than what we wore in the past - in fact, sticking my neck out, I’d say they are better than many previous fashions.